Reward Pool, Abuse and human shields.

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Hello to everybody!

Yesterday I stopped to read a post by Hive account@fulltimegeek and for the first time since I signed up on Steemit I became aware of the fact that there are many users who take advantage of the reward pool and few who try to stem the problem using the own resources to combat the bad behavior.

One of these people is Hive account@fulltimegeek who has a great Steem Power to act forcefully against those who try to be smart.
The thing that struck me most is the effort of many small users (minnows mostly) that jeopardize their reputation and their future on steemit in a sort of sacrifice for the good of the community.

I would like to mention for example:

• Hive account@kabir88 which now has a reputation of -11

• Hive account@lyndsaybowes whose posts are all zeroed in earnings right near the payout

• Hive account@hendrix22 that suffers the same fate as Hive account@lyndsaybowes

• Hive account@tufkat that due to the flag war has a reputation of -3

What can you do then? First of all we can stop voting for users who try to take advantage of the reward pool. In fact I do not know for what strange reason, not only these characters constantly self-voting, do not vote who comments on their posts and even responds to comments. But also receives many votes and I have not yet understood why ..

Excuse me if my reasoning may seem simplistic or stupid, I enrolled recently and I'm reading a lot to understand if it is worth investing time to grow in steemit or if it is worthwhile to drop everything and look for new opportunities.

I'd like to take a moment to thank those who are committed to keep steemit clean from the injustices we already have to bear in real life and those who sacrifice themselves for this purpose. You have all my esteem, even though I am such a small fish and my actions can not produce any effect.

This post has been translated into English from Italian with Google translate. Unfortunately I do not know English and this is the only way to interact with you.

I hope the sense of the post is not upset by the automatic translation.